Classics

I like reading classic literature. All those stories I think I know but never actually read.

Pride and Prejudice was the last one I read and wow Jane Austen was a fantastic writer.

I like to find the books in stores, not ordering them

What's your favourite?

Last book I saw and realized I have never read was Dracula

Russian authors I struggle with. Tried a few Dostoevsky but find it too hard-going .

I've never read any Charles Dickens..

I feel bad about that

Im more in to the goth stuff like Edgar Allen Poe, real introvert stuff.

When I read "The case of M Valdemar" I was thinking "c'mon Poe you better not do some weird shit and have the guy melt into water or something"

It's one of those authors that kinda surprised you as you read along but looking back it's not really that surprising as it is depressing.

Either way, the emotion is effectively communicated. Plus the guy was disturbed like Vincent Van Gogh. So you know it's real in his mind.

About Victor Hugo, I just saw he's a Pisces, totally makes sense with his compassion/humility based plots.

I also like Around the World in 80 days by Jules Verne, very imagínate and adventurous mind.

Crime and Punishmenet & Brothers Karamazov

Edit: Nevermind! I just read the last sentence in the OP

Of Mice and Men perhaps?

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Crime and Punishmenet & Brothers Karamazov

Edit: Nevermind! I just read the last sentence in the OP

Of Mice and Men perhaps?

I tried Brothers Karamazov but just couldn't stick with it.

DrZhivago I gave up with as well

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Posted by Argus

Crime and Punishmenet & Brothers Karamazov

Edit: Nevermind! I just read the last sentence in the OP

Of Mice and Men perhaps?

I tried Brothers Karamazov but just couldn't stick with it.

DrZhivago I gave up with as well

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Got ya!

Yeah, Russian authors tend to lean a bit on a heavy side. They don't lend themselves to a casual, breezy read!

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Posted by Wizardzzz

Posted by Argus

Crime and Punishmenet & Brothers Karamazov

Edit: Nevermind! I just read the last sentence in the OP

Of Mice and Men perhaps?

I tried Brothers Karamazov but just couldn't stick with it.
DrZhivago I gave up with as well

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Got ya!

Yeah, Russian authors tend to lean a bit on a heavy side. They don't lend themselves to a casual, breezy read!

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The names are difficult and every chapter seems to introduce a new character. I guess they are experts at weaving together stories but I find myself reading less and less each day because I have no grasp of the plot

Posted by FuelAirPropellant
Im more in to the goth stuff like Edgar Allen Poe, real introvert stuff.

When I read "The case of M Valdemar" I was thinking "c'mon Poe you better not do some weird shit and have the guy melt into water or something"

It's one of those authors that kinda surprised you as you read along but looking back it's not really that surprising as it is depressing.

Either way, the emotion is effectively communicated. Plus the guy was disturbed like Vincent Van Gogh. So you know it's real in his mind.

About Victor Hugo, I just saw he's a Pisces, totally makes sense with his compassion/humility based plots.

I also like Around the World in 80 days by Jules Verne, very imagínate and adventurous mind.

Yeh Poe is a great mix of "flowery"writing but also interesting plots and creating atmosphere. I've read most of his stories. I also am a fan of short stories, in general

Around the world in 80 days is Def one I'd like to read

Posted by MidAtBest
Id recommend Great Expectations

Id say Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo was my favorite classic book

People called it dry and full of filler (along with a theme of hopelessness and despair), but I thought Hugo had a sense of humor. Made me laugh multiple times

Is that the hunchback of Notre-Dame? Yeh that's the kind of book I like to read since I 've heard of it a lot but never read it

Great Expectations another I should definitely try

my 10 yr old self had absolutely no business reading frankenstein, king lear or the winter's tale. but suppose that's a natural consequence of my 8 yr old self reading fanfics about the black sisters' family drama (black and malfoy family) 🤷🤷

as a kid, was more drawn to stuff that i'm not supposed to be reading about like someone abandoning their disabled child, irresponsibly playing god, people who have made really bad life choices and realized too late that they trusted the wrong person. most of the things i've read about i prob didn't really fully understand until i'm an adult. but weirdly enough, most of the things i read up on centered on family or found family. i'm not an orphan btw but was def bombarded with orphan material.

had a lot of zombie nightmares growing up too. reanimation/resurrection is one of the creepiest ideas to have ever been.

didn't really like all the girly literature even through my teen years like why do we have to read romeo and juliet? eww nobody looks like 70s leonard whiting here, we're all just trying to get by and wondering why we're not doing titus andronicus.

i appreciated them much later on when i was already in my mid 20s coz romeo and juliet have pretty scandalous dialogue and as a teenager, i never really understood flirting and tend to equate it to bullying lol. yeah i got there pretty late but hey i'm here and ready to write regency era fanfics but IN SPACE 😆😆

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my 10 yr old self had absolutely no business reading frankenstein, king lear or the winter's tale. but suppose that's a natural consequence of my 8 yr old self reading fanfics about the black sisters' family drama (black and malfoy family) 🤷🤷

as a kid, was more drawn to stuff that i'm not supposed to be reading about like someone abandoning their disabled child, irresponsibly playing god, people who have made really bad life choices and realized too late that they trusted the wrong person. most of the things i've read about i prob didn't really fully understand until i'm an adult. but weirdly enough, most of the things i read up on centered on family or found family. i'm not an orphan btw but was def bombarded with orphan material.

had a lot of zombie nightmares growing up too. reanimation/resurrection is one of the creepiest ideas to have ever been.

didn't really like all the girly literature even through my teen years like why do we have to read romeo and juliet? eww nobody looks like 70s leonard whiting here, we're all just trying to get by and wondering why we're not doing titus andronicus.

i appreciated them much later on when i was already in my mid 20s coz romeo and juliet have pretty scandalous dialogue and as a teenager, i never really understood flirting and tend to equate it to bullying lol. yeah i got there pretty late but hey i'm here and ready to write regency era fanfics but IN SPACE 😆😆

Did you read The Bunker Diary? That won a prize for young fiction.. ugh it's a nasty book. I read it as an adult and found it disturbing

Talking about "children's" books - Alice in Wonderland and Through the looking glass are great

Gulliver's Travels

The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe

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my 10 yr old self had absolutely no business reading frankenstein, king lear or the winter's tale. but suppose that's a natural consequence of my 8 yr old self reading fanfics about the black sisters' family drama (black and malfoy family) 🤷🤷

as a kid, was more drawn to stuff that i'm not supposed to be reading about like someone abandoning their disabled child, irresponsibly playing god, people who have made really bad life choices and realized too late that they trusted the wrong person. most of the things i've read about i prob didn't really fully understand until i'm an adult. but weirdly enough, most of the things i read up on centered on family or found family. i'm not an orphan btw but was def bombarded with orphan material.

had a lot of zombie nightmares growing up too. reanimation/resurrection is one of the creepiest ideas to have ever been.

didn't really like all the girly literature even through my teen years like why do we have to read romeo and juliet? eww nobody looks like 70s leonard whiting here, we're all just trying to get by and wondering why we're not doing titus andronicus.

i appreciated them much later on when i was already in my mid 20s coz romeo and juliet have pretty scandalous dialogue and as a teenager, i never really understood flirting and tend to equate it to bullying lol. yeah i got there pretty late but hey i'm here and ready to write regency era fanfics but IN SPACE 😆😆

Did you read The Bunker Diary? That won a prize for young fiction.. ugh it's a nasty book. I read it as an adult and found it disturbing

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i haven't yet but now i'm curious, will check it out thanks for the reco 😊😊

I don't actually remember all the classics I've read

Hugo annoys me

Sherlock holmes, of course, it's the goat

Jules Vernes is great too, pretty much obligatory reading, the books are better than all the adaptations

Stephen king before the 90s is good

Lovecraft, loved his dark desperate mythos stuff, but my mind was blown when I discover there was a light, adventurous and enthusing side to it (the dreamlands). Related to this : Robert E howard

Scifi : too many to list, but big fan of Van Vogt and Lem

I hate Herbert

Not sure it's a classic but I love Robert Benchley, and similar early 20th deadpan humour

Not novels, but I love to read old political essays, anything from before ww2, it's always very enlightening and without any lies

And of course, antique mythology of all places and epochs, greek mythology and philosophy is pretty much the best stuff, you can put in your head

Skip it. It is overrated a lot. If not the Soviet ban, no one cared about this book.

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I tried Brothers Karamazov but just couldn't stick with it.

DrZhivago I gave up with as well

The Great Gatsby was alright but not amazing imo

I do like some Hemingway . To have and have not was rly good. Also Fiesta, the sun also rises. Didn't much like For whom the bell tolls - too much convoluted introspection

A farewell to arms was pretty savage. I read it all tho so it was pretty interesting because I give up on books quite often

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Id recommend Great Expectations

Id say Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo was my favorite classic book

People called it dry and full of filler (along with a theme of hopelessness and despair), but I thought Hugo had a sense of humor. Made me laugh multiple times

Is that the hunchback of Notre-Dame? Yeh that's the kind of book I like to read since I 've heard of it a lot but never read it
Great Expectations another I should definitely try
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Claude frollo is maybe the darkest character Ive ever read, like I was appalled after reading that they adapted it to a children's film.

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That's the only Disney movie I'll watch. Was a masterpiece imo (book and animation)

The only thing they messed up was the knight guy Phoebus or whatever his name was so weak

Kinda wanna watch it now

Last thing I read was Moby Dick to about half way. Idk whg I stopped because It was good. I guess I smoke too much these days.

Totally agree with you on Pride and Prejudice! I was surprised by how witty and sharp it was. Jane Austen really nailed the characters and the social dynamics.

Two of my personal favorites are Jane Eyre and The Count of Monte Cristo.

Jane Eyre hit me emotionally in a way I didn’t expect, and the Count of Monte Cristo is such an epic revenge tale, every twist is so satisfying. 🙂

Virgil's poetry, admittedly in translation.

I'm not too fond of English poetry or fiction, although Shakespeare is supposed to be great.

Virgil was a Libra btw, I think first decan.